Howard Fineman is Newsweek's senior Washington correspondent and columnist. His "Living Politics" column appears regularly in the magazine, on newsweek.com, and on MSNBC.com. An award-winning writer, Fineman is also an NBC news analyst and a regular on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic.